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Louder, stronger than ever, pop-punk maestros A are back and this time theyre serious. Hi-Fi Serious to be precise. Hi-Fi Serious is the British bands brand new album, an explosive, hyperactive celebration of all things great and all things rock. Having first thundered onto the music scene with their supercharged 1999 America more
Louder, stronger than ever, pop-punk maestros A are back and this time theyre serious. Hi-Fi Serious to be precise. Hi-Fi Serious is the British bands brand new album, an explosive, hyperactive celebration of all things great and all things rock. Having first thundered onto the music scene with their supercharged 1999 American debut album, Monkey Kong, A once were the rock worlds best kept secret. But now all of that has changed. Hi-Fi Serious entered the charts in their native England in the Top 20 and the albums first single, Nothing, a feast of crushing riffs, electronic dynamics and super infectious melodies, entered at No. 9. And that was just phase one in the bands plan for world domination.
The songwriting has gone up seven notches, explains bass demon Dan Carter. The vocals had gone up seven notches and everything else had to. Everything had to be better, more, bigger and more international. I dont want to be in a twee little English band, I wanna be in a big international rock act. With devil horns. A are making serious inroads to fulfilling Dans ambition, and recording the album at ICP Studios in Brussels was a good start. Having played in 27 countries to support the criminally overlooked album Monkey Kong, frontman Jason Perry, recognizable by his seemingly ever present golf visor and bizarre dancing, remains full of enthusiasm for his travels.
Its been amazing. Weve been from East German football stadiums to massive arenas to playing in front of five people in the American Mid-West, then onto 20,000 on the West Coast the next day.
And now that the music world has undergone a true rock rennaisance-with the likes of Linkin Park, Blink 182 and Papa Roach making rock cool again-the time couldnt be better for A. Weve been A for the past however many years, unashamedly A and almost felt like a square peg in a round hole, especially in the U.K., explains Jason at lightning pace. People would look at us and go, youre from California.And now the climate has come around to our way of thinking and all you see is black hooded tops, just kids into rock music.
Hi-Fi Serious, however, is definitely THE A album. Produced by Al Clay (Pixies, Therapy?), it ranges from the stomping great metallic riffs of Shut Yer Face and Nothing (our little nod to Faith No More, according to Dan) to the ultra-infectious emo-tinged pop-punk of such tracks as Pacific Ocean Blue. A true highlight from Hi-Fi Serious is Starbucks, which is not exactly a paean to the corporate multinational coffee provider.
We had a big discussion on tour about what wed do if this all ended now, and we were like, we could probably sort something out in the long term, but wed probably all end up working in McDonalds or something, chuckles Dan, and this ridiculous conversation started, Id rather work in Burger King, No, McDonalds is better than that. And it ended up with the ultimate job out of those sort of fast food jobs would be working in Starbucks!
Plus it would be good to have someone working in Starbucks who could work the till, quips Jason.
Having been long-term fans of Van Halen, A have acknowledged that influence most notably on The Distance, a track that features searing Eddie styled solos from guitarist Mark Chapman. Mark was reticent about putting the track down, since the rest of the band were eager to finish for the day and get some Belgian beer down. Having finally been persuaded, Mark cranked out the solo of his life, leaving everyone aghast and with scorched air guitar fingers. http://uk.youtube.com/user/cap italchaos
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